Register online between April 1 and August 1 and pay only $349 per conference (this represents a $50 discount per conference). Individuals must register for specific conferences. To view specific conferences, click here. This discount may not be combined with other conference discounts. To register for conferences, click here.

BONUS Meeting
April 23-25, 2014
Charleston, SC

Business Officers of Nursing Schools (BONUS) is dedicated to facilitating networking among those who work in the administration of nursing education and to providing education in areas of business, technology, and financial and administrative management of nursing schools. Assistants to the dean, fiscal managers, business officers and any personnel involved in the operational management of a school of nursing will benefit from attending this conference. For more information and to register, click here.

U.S Professors of the Year Award Program

The U.S. Professors of the Year program salutes the most outstanding undergraduate instructors in the country—those who excel in teaching and positively influence the lives and careers of students.

All undergraduate teachers in the United States, of any academic rank at any type of undergraduate institution, are eligible for the award. Entries are judged by top U.S. educators and other active participants in education. The deadline for entries is April 14, 2014.For more information and to nominate, click here.

Apply Now for the 2014 Minority Nurse Faculty Scholarship

AACN, with support from the Johnson & Johnson Campaign forNursing’s Future, is currently offering a new round of scholarship funding to underrepresented minority nursing students who plan to work as nursing faculty after graduation. Applicants must be enrolled full-time in a doctoral nursing program or a clinically-focused master’s degree program. Five scholarships in the amount of $18,000 will be awarded.

Click here for more details and to access the scholarship application.Applications must be received by May1, 2014.

Through thought-provoking general sessions, interactive workshops, small group discussions, and poster presentations, this program provides valuable opportunities for networking and sharing best practices in care delivery transformation, interprofessional education, and research that supports improved health care quality and value.

Visit website for detailed program information including conference agenda and registration materials.

The 2014 Geriatric Nursing Research Scholars Program

July 28–August 1, 2014

This annual scholars program, hosted by the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at NYU College of Nursing in partnership with the NHCGNE, is an opportunity for researchers in academia and for hospitals to participate in a week-long, intensive summer seminar for an in-depth mentoring experience with nationally recognized gerontologic nursing researchers. Space is limited!

The application deadline is June 1, 2014. For a list of faculty and additional information, click here or contact Kim Cheng, (212) 992-9416 or hartford.ign@nyu.edu.

The Foundation is also excited to announce the expansion of the program to include a new focus on clinically based research to support improving the quality of care provided in clinical settings and the integral role nurses play in designing better care.
All applications are due May 1, 2014.

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Questions?

For more information about faculty programs offered by AACN, contact Dr. Mary Bondmass, Director of Faculty Development via email or 202-463-6930, ext. 259.

Based on the content developed through the Quality and Safety Education for Nurses (QSEN) initiative, AACN has created a free faculty development resource for nurse educators teaching in graduate-level programs. To build on AACN’s commitment to further disseminate the QSEN teaching strategies, AACN has launched seven web-based learning modules focused on a Call to Action and the six core QSEN competencies: Patient-centered care, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice (EBP), quality improvement (QI), safety, and informatics. These cutting-edge, interactive modules are available to all nurse faculty in graduate-level nursing programs and can be accessed through AACN’s collaboration community. Faculty will have the opportunity to earn American Nurses Credentialing Center contact hours for each QSEN learning module.

For more information contact Faculty Programs Coordinator Anna Kathryn Pierce at apierce@aacn.nche.edu. Please share this exciting new resource with your faculty. All schools soon will receive brochures that can be distributed to faculty members.

Final Call for Leadership for Academic Nursing Program (LANP)

After AACN’s first round of competitive reviews, 7 spots are still available for the Leadership for Academic Nursing Program (LANP) planned for this summer. Consequently, AACN is pleased to announce the opening of a “Second Call for Applications”. If you had considered applying for this program, but just didn’t get it done by the April 1st deadline, you now will have another chance to join your colleagues at this exciting leadership development conference.

LANP is designed to enhance the executive leadership skills of individuals in mid- to upper-level faculty positions who have experience in academic administration roles and aspire to lead the nursing academic unit. This competitive program is also offered for individuals serving as the chief academic administrator of a nursing school offering baccalaureate or graduate degrees who are new to the role (within 3 years).

This prestigious program features an intensive 5-day seminar, focused assessment activities, facilitation of a mentorship experience, opportunities for follow-up with seminar faculty, and sharing of ideas and resources among fellows. The program focuses on key leadership competencies needed in complex nursing education and health care environments.

AACN’s IPEC partner, the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH), is undertaking an environmental scan of graduate nursing student involvement in interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice. The aim of the survey is to identify schools and programs that are integrating public health and care delivery into IPE towards improving graduates' abilities to advance population health.

AACN and ASPPH would appreciate one academic affairs administrative lead, or the IPE lead, from each AACN member institution to fill out this brief survey. For your reference, a PDF copy of the survey is available at www.aacn.nche.edu/leading-initiatives/AACN-IPE-Survey.pdf. Prior to completing the survey, please review the PDF copy so that your institution can preview the entire survey and work together with other faculty leaders to obtain the necessary information. After the information has been collected, the IPE lead can access and complete the survey, simply by clicking on the link below.

To participate in the survey, visit www.surveymonkey.com/s/AACN-IPEsurvey. Responses are respectfully requested by Wednesday, April 23. Aggregated results will be shared with survey respondents. Please contact ASPPH's Elizabeth Weist at eweist@aspph.org with any questions.

Join AACN for the 2014 Summer Seminar in Santa Fe, New Mexico at the Eldorado Hotel on July 20-23, 2014.

AACN's Summer Seminar is a popular annual event that allows deans/directors/chairs and senior faculty to explore critical concerns in a setting away from the pressures of daily administration. Themes and topics change each year, addressing nursing higher education issues and providing executive development for aspiring, new, and experienced deans as well as others in academic leadership positions.

Bring family and a team of colleagues to enjoy the area’s many attractions and gain valuable leadership strategies. Casual attire is recommended. For more information and to register, click here.

The Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC) invites faculty teams to attend an upcoming Faculty Development Institute on May 4-7, 2014 at the Dulles Hyatt in Herndon, VA. The overall goal of the institute is to create faculty champions who will plan and develop a programmatic action plan to design an IPE curricula through team-based activities and success stories from IPEC experts. Faculty across the health disciplines will come together to explore how to embed interprofessional education content into their curriculum. Pre-course reading activities will be assigned prior to the face-to-face workshop, and the post-course period will afford opportunities for online networking and a community of practice. Upon returning to their home institutions, workshop participants will help to develop faculty teams with the knowledge and skills necessary to implement an interprofessional education plan. For more information and to register for the institute, visit https://ipecollaborative.org.

The American Association of Colleges of Nursing, CDC Academic Partnership Project is pleased to announce a call for proposals for two small evaluation projects to increase the evidence base in the impact of academic/practice partnerships in public/population health.

The small grants are intended to support primary and secondary data analysis focused on the impacts of selected interventions undertaken as part of an existing academic/practice partnership that involves an academic partner together with a public health or population health focused community partner and/or a local health department.

Eligible applicants should be current members of AACN and involved in an existing graduate or undergraduate academic/practice partnership that has been functional for at least 2 calendar years. The partnership should involve an academic and a public health or population health focused community partner. Applicants will be asked to provide documentation of their partnership arrangement and a designated primary investigator from the academic partner to coordinate the evaluation project.

AACN has launched a new online member services system, called My AACN. This new system streamlines each part of the membership experience and provides an array of online services that can be accessed on demand by deans, faculty, staff, and students from affiliated schools.

In February faculty members received an email from Beth Aronson, AACN's Membership Director, containing a unique login and password with easy instructions on how to login to the new system.

Visit AACN’s main website (www.aacn.nche.edu) and login with your login and password to access the new system (upper right corner of AACN's homepage). Below are some features of My AACN:

Excellence and Innovation in Teaching Award
This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of nursing at AACN member schools by faculty with more than five years of teaching experience. Faculty who teach in didactic and/or clinical settings will be considered for this award.
Deadline to submit an application is June 4, 2014.

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Excellence Award
This award recognizes a faculty member who systematically investigates questions related to student learning and the conditions under which it occurs in order to improve outcomes. Deadline to submit an application is June 4, 2014.

Novice Faculty Teaching Awards
This award recognizes excellence and innovation in the teaching of nursing by novice faculty at AACN member schools. Two awards will be presented each year: one for didactic and one for clinical teaching. Deadline to submit an application is June 4, 2014.

Innovations in Professional Nursing Education Awards
This award recognizes the outstanding work of AACN member schools to re-envision traditional models for nursing education and lead programmatic change. Innovation awards, including a monetary prize of $1,000, will be given in four institutional categories: Small School; Academic Health Center (AHC); Private School without an AHC; and Public School without an AHC. Deadline to submit a nomination is June 6, 2014.

Sr. Bernadette Armiger Award
One of the highest honors a person can receive from AACN is the Sr. Bernadette Armiger Award, which recognizes a nursing leader who has made significant contributions to AACN and its goals, to nursing education, and to the advancement of the profession. Deadline to submit a nomination is June 6, 2014.

Graduation cords are now available for purchase to recognize students graduating from a Clinical Nurse Leader program. To demonstrate this achievement and to show unity, the Commission on Nurse Certification (CNC) now offers a royal blue cord at a cost of $8 (includes shipping). To order the CNL cords and for other CNL merchandise, go to www.aacn.nche.edu/cnl/merchandise.

If you have suggestions for other CNL products and services, contact Tracy Lofty, CNC’s Executive Director, at tlofty@aacn.nche.edu.

ELNEC will hold numerous courses throughout the US in 2014 and in 8 international countries. National courses will be held in Dallas, TX, Durham, NC, St. Paul, MN, Washington, DC, Chicago, IL, Portland, OR, and Orlando, FL. ELNEC courses are provided for various specialties and interest groups that nursing faculty may be involved in. For example, specific curricula are available for those who:

Teach in a DNP program and/or participate in DNP clinical practice (National Cancer Institute provided funding for this course)

Lead or provide care for the seriously ill in an advanced practice role

Provide care to seriously ill children, including perinatal and neonatal

Learn More About Leveraging NursingCAS for Effective Results in Graduate Programs

The annual NursingCAS Open House and Enrollment Management Workshop is scheduled for June 12 -13, 2014 in Boston, MA. This year’s event will be held at Simmons College, and the keynote speaker is Dr. Jack Maguire, the former Dean of Admission at Boston College (BC) and founder of “Strategic Enrollment Management” theory. During his tenure at BC, he tripled the number of applications, transforming the quality of the student body and the school’s national reputation. This free workshop and open house is designed to help schools learn more about how to leverage this free AACN-led service. The event is open to deans, admissions professionals, faculty, IT staff, advisors, registrars, and others engaged in nursing program admission from both prospective and currently participating schools. A reduced rate at the Hilton Boston Back Bay hotel is available for booking until May 21, and all attendees should register by June 4, 2014. To see the full program agenda and more details, click here. Sessions will feature topics such as diversity, return on investment with NursingCAS, developing a recruitment plan and strategy, implementing NursingCAS, a preview of the new version of NursingCAS scheduled for release in October, training on the admissions software (WebAdMIT), and managing a paperless admissions process.